MeidasTouch uncovers second instance of Trump’s Defense nominee complaining about coverage of war crimes and human rights ...

He would eventually be imprisoned for five years in 2006—including at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, he told PBS. How Has Al-Golani Said He Wants To Run Syria? In an interview with CNN last ...

Once an extremist who fought US troops in Iraq, rebel leader Abu Mohammed al Jolani now preaches pluralism and tolerance. Now ...

Assad oversaw Syria's slide into a brutal civil war in 2011. His security forces sought to crush a mass protest movement demanding democratic reforms as the Arab Spring buffeted the region. The ...

It wasn’t the horrific abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, but rather, the pictures of it that forced public and official acknowledgment. The Defense Department vehemently resisted the ...

Jimmy Carter shared his views in presidential speeches, books and beyond. From war to drugs, peace to human rights, here are some memorable quotes.

Former prisoners such as Aras Taleb Rashid, who was arrested for opposing Saddam Hussein, recall the similar methods of ...

FILE - A detainee in an outdoor solitary confinement cell talks with a military police officer at the Abu Ghraib Prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, June 22, 2004. A judge declared a mistrial ...

He was detained by the US military in Iraq and spent time in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. In the early 2000s, the extremist Islamic State of Iraq - led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi - grew out of ...

Jolani said he was arrested by American forces and held for more than five years in several detention facilities, including the infamous Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca prisons. Jolani said his ideology ...